I got a few requests to do an AMA in this post, along with a formal request here.

So in very early World of Warcraft I played a Orc Rogue named Angwe who became relatively well known for all but closing down a major port deep in enemy territory (Menethil Harbor) for months on end and maintaining a website of rage fueled tells and empty threats.

When I left for college I quit WoW and eventually quit hosting my website. Various people saved the screenshots and kept the site going until eventually Luke McKinney found it and put it as the #1 Most Elaborate Dick Moves in Online Gaming History

So here I am, hopefully in the right subreddit to answer your questions.

Proof:

Screenshot of an email from Blizzard in 2005 verifying my characters name and server.

Comments: 2337 • Responses: 42  • Date: 

griffith12842 karma

How spot on was the character they made of you on South Park?

Angwe1614 karma

Pretty far off, my basement looks nothing like that.

bstampl1191 karma

How long were you able to do this?

Angwe423 karma

4ish months

cobson143 karma

Did you not get bored shitless after a while?

Angwe372 karma

Not really, being able to see the other teams chat really made things interesting.

internet-arbiter65 karma

Hey I was essentially your spiritual counterpart on the Gorgonnash server. Didn't you ever have to deal with alliance guilds who started to get dedicated to hunting you? After a few hours of this about 10 or 15 would show up, so I always swapped spots.

Angwe194 karma

You could do a few things. You could pick the weakest of the group and try to kill and bail, or you could go chain kill some lowbies in the wetlands itself, get them to scream a bit and usually it would at least break the group up as some or all of them would come looking. You can also get on the boat and not start stabbing until the boat leaves the dock...but you would have to make sure to jump off before zoning.

[deleted]684 karma

If this gets to the front page I will kill myself.

Angwe1070 karma

Before you kill yourself could you transcribe your last words and send them to me?

[deleted]1194 karma

"I didn't choose the thug life; the thug life chose me."

Angwe1389 karma

Goodnight my sweet prince.

Angwe1065 karma

Before you kill yourself could you transcribe your last words and send them to me?

[deleted]1194 karma

"I didn't choose the thug life; the thug life chose me."

Angwe1389 karma

Goodnight my sweet prince.

L0stm4n462 karma

I run liquidcode.org. Would you like me to take your content down?

I put it up because I thought it was hilarious and mirrored it for my own lulz. Then all the other mirrors went down. I kept it up. When Cracked originally put that article up it brought my little VPS to it's knees and used most my allotted bandwidth for the month. I tossed google ads up there to help pay for my bandwidth overages.

EDIT: Here is what happened when cracked first posted that article. http://imgur.com/fILyQ

EDIT2: It's happening again! http://imgur.com/zQ0De

Updated MaxClients in apache from 150 to 256. This should resolve some of the slowness issues.

Angwe339 karma

I don't have a problem with you hosting it, but if you intend to take it down let me know so I can make other arrangements.

harthestill443 karma

I never played WoW, but why didn't people just team up to kill you when they wanted to pass?

Angwe774 karma

I was pretty good with a Rogue, which were already pretty powerful on their own. People would team up but I can stealth and wait for a person to break away from the group or just get in and kill one and get out.

Reasonable_enough70 karma

I never played WoW but wasn't there any items or spells that let players see invisible or hidden players?

Angwe202 karma

If you got close enough to the rogue they would destealth, but the radius was so low that by the time you could see them it was usually too late.

Hunters also had an area of effect ability called flare which would remove stealth.

Thud_Gunderson374 karma

Was it just you alone doing it? If so, how did you manage to keep such a complete hold on the area - or are the stories of that overblown? The stuff I read suggests that you essentially covered the area night and day for weeks.

Angwe717 karma

It was just me, typically 8-10 hours a day. I didn't raid, level alts and only rarely did dungeons after 60. My goal was to get on average 100 honor kills in a day (this was before battlegrounds), which would put me either 1st or 2nd place weekly in the honor grind.

I would have friends come on other characters every once in a while, but usually that would just be counter productive. The idea was to get lowbies to scream loud enough that a few white knights would come try and save them or go level up and come back for revenge themselves...not to start a riot.

asdf92392 karma

Should note that back at this time, wetlands had only one graveyard that was quite a walk to town. This made it a great place for this sort of pvp because it wasn't just a gy zerg fest. You could have a good amount of downtime between kills to regen CDs and let the heat die down

Angwe187 karma

Actually, there were 2 graveyards. Alliance spawned very close to the city while horde spawned at the far one you mentioned. I did that walk so many times. so many times.

biggerx32 karma

So people did kill you at certain points? Did you just walk back to town and start stabbing them in the back again like it never happened? Or did you save a special type of revenge for the people that actually took you down?

Angwe65 karma

I would die usually a handful of times in a session

dhawk00276 karma

What was your most memorable fight/gank that you had during your time camping near Menethil?

Angwe728 karma

One of the first things I did when I got Angwespy was bullshit my way into a few big alliance guilds, get an office tag (all as a lvl 1) and use macros to remove everyone in the guild almost instantly. The reactions were spectacular…ganking lets you drink sweet tears, but wiping out an established guild lets you main line them.

Other than that the guide on how to get around me was amazing. I had heard rumors about it but I had to get access to the guild forums to see it myself.

str8faced333228 karma

How do you feel about being having the number one dick move? Did it start as a joke and just got out of hand? What was your daily routine to protect the area? are you a dick in real life? I must say I have never played WoW, but find it very cool what you did.

Angwe388 karma

I think the whole dick move thing is funny and flattering. I have friends who didn't play WoW or were really into gaming at all, and the story that he wrote made it easy for them to understand the whole thing.

It got out of hand a few times. I felt bad about this one and I could have gotten banned for this guy over here

Angwe385 karma

I think the whole dick move thing is funny and flattering. I have friends who didn't play WoW or were really into gaming at all, and the story that he wrote made it easy for them to understand the whole thing.

It got out of hand a few times. I felt bad about this one and I could have gotten banned for this guy over here

kiesar_sosay214 karma

did you ever piss off anyone enough that they tracked you down in the real world?

Angwe451 karma

Yea, someone got my girlfriends name through her web hosting and they thought I was a chick for a while.

theocracy123185 karma

Mmmm I killed you on my pally, Massxacre from Pie Vendor. Holy crap you just bitch slapped me with nostalgia. And I used to /dance with you on my hunter that was in NR, but then you killed me one day :[ My heart has not healed since then.

Angwe251 karma

I stabbed ye but not with my dagger.

Angwe251 karma

I stabbed ye but not with my dagger.

sehrill144 karma

You rule. Lok'tar ogar!

Angwe204 karma

Bur Bur

Delocaz139 karma

Why? Why did you do it? What made you do it?

Angwe259 karma

Originally I missed being able to communicate with the people I am fighting. I came from Everquest PvP (played with Pandemonium on Tallon Zek) so I was familiar with people getting really pissed when they lose, especially if they feel it was unfair. The problem was that I had to play two characters in order to see what people were saying, so it was better to stay in one place that I was sure to see a lot of traffic.

I actually started in Aberdine at about lvl 45, this was before they had the boats working. Blizzard had these NPCs setup which would teleport people between Menethil and Aberdine. It was extremely cheap because the players body would load in before they had control, so I could go to town on people. The problem with Aberdine was that the only route I had for escape was jumping off the docks, which took like 10 minutes to get back into position. So when Blizzard fixed the boats I found myself getting overwhelmed quite often by entire boatloads of people instead of the steady trickle that I was used to. Menethil worked out really well because it had enough higher levels that I could compete in the (then) upcoming honor system, but also swarms of lower levels that I could satiate my thirst for sweet succulent rage tells and use as a sort of white knight bait to draw out the higher level players.

cmnsnspns37 karma

What was your character name on PDM in TZ? I don't remember an Angwe. I played with them for a bit, then quit, then played again when they started another guild on an emu server that was just mainland EQ although they were working on RoK it never really came together.

Angwe68 karma

I went by Angwe in Pandemonium, was a Troll Beastlord and quit after PoK.

I was actually a developer on the VZ / TZ Emulator after Daxum left, I went by Null. We got Kunark complete but I think the actual guild Pandemonium had dissolved (the one on the emulator not the live server).

Project 1999 has a PvP server going right now. I am on the staff and helped out a lot in the beginning, but not as of late.

Delocaz133 karma

Why? Why did you do it? What made you do it?

Angwe259 karma

Originally I missed being able to communicate with the people I am fighting. I came from Everquest PvP (played with Pandemonium on Tallon Zek) so I was familiar with people getting really pissed when they lose, especially if they feel it was unfair. The problem was that I had to play two characters in order to see what people were saying, so it was better to stay in one place that I was sure to see a lot of traffic.

I actually started in Aberdine at about lvl 45, this was before they had the boats working. Blizzard had these NPCs setup which would teleport people between Menethil and Aberdine. It was extremely cheap because the players body would load in before they had control, so I could go to town on people. The problem with Aberdine was that the only route I had for escape was jumping off the docks, which took like 10 minutes to get back into position. So when Blizzard fixed the boats I found myself getting overwhelmed quite often by entire boatloads of people instead of the steady trickle that I was used to. Menethil worked out really well because it had enough higher levels that I could compete in the (then) upcoming honor system, but also swarms of lower levels that I could satiate my thirst for sweet succulent rage tells and use as a sort of white knight bait to draw out the higher level players.

cmnsnspns37 karma

What was your character name on PDM in TZ? I don't remember an Angwe. I played with them for a bit, then quit, then played again when they started another guild on an emu server that was just mainland EQ although they were working on RoK it never really came together.

Angwe68 karma

I went by Angwe in Pandemonium, was a Troll Beastlord and quit after PoK.

I was actually a developer on the VZ / TZ Emulator after Daxum left, I went by Null. We got Kunark complete but I think the actual guild Pandemonium had dissolved (the one on the emulator not the live server).

Project 1999 has a PvP server going right now. I am on the staff and helped out a lot in the beginning, but not as of late.

Mario_love117 karma

Wait, so are you the guy that the World of Warcraft south park episode was about?

Angwe177 karma

Hell if I know.

The guards that spawn on the docks did get progressively more powerful as time went on, but I fairly certain that had more to do with the bottleneck then me personally.

Angwe176 karma

Hell if I know.

The guards that spawn on the docks did get progressively more powerful as time went on, but I fairly certain that had more to do with the bottleneck then me personally.

Mario_love117 karma

Wait, so are you the guy that the World of Warcraft south park episode was about?

Angwe177 karma

Hell if I know.

The guards that spawn on the docks did get progressively more powerful as time went on, but I fairly certain that had more to do with the bottleneck then me personally.

Angwe176 karma

Hell if I know.

The guards that spawn on the docks did get progressively more powerful as time went on, but I fairly certain that had more to do with the bottleneck then me personally.

WaywardWayfarer116 karma

How did you feel about WoW's transition away from the more conventional means of travel towards porting everywhere / flying?

Angwe256 karma

The teleporting I don't mind so much, but the pvp free zones and having no real way to dismount people from flying mounts kills world pvp.

PANCAKETWAT1499 karma

You should have tried early UO. That was the ultimate in open PvP.

Angwe69 karma

Thats what I hear.

Angwe256 karma

The teleporting I don't mind so much, but the pvp free zones and having no real way to dismount people from flying mounts kills world pvp.

PANCAKETWAT1499 karma

You should have tried early UO. That was the ultimate in open PvP.

Angwe69 karma

Thats what I hear.

WaywardWayfarer115 karma

How did you feel about WoW's transition away from the more conventional means of travel towards porting everywhere / flying?

Angwe256 karma

The teleporting I don't mind so much, but the pvp free zones and having no real way to dismount people from flying mounts kills world pvp.

PANCAKETWAT1499 karma

You should have tried early UO. That was the ultimate in open PvP.

Angwe69 karma

Thats what I hear.

Angwe256 karma

The teleporting I don't mind so much, but the pvp free zones and having no real way to dismount people from flying mounts kills world pvp.

PANCAKETWAT1499 karma

You should have tried early UO. That was the ultimate in open PvP.

Angwe69 karma

Thats what I hear.

AdaAstra112 karma

This is one of the saddest things I've read. People apparently sucked at PvP back then.

Angwe301 karma

Yep, and they made a ton of noise while doing it.

toastiesguy111 karma

Do you still play WoW? If so, do people still recognize you?

Angwe186 karma

I go back every so often. I long since transfered off Dethecus, but on my new server people recognize the name every so often.

yunoreddit62 karma

What server are you on now?

Angwe83 karma

Account isn't active but he is now on Crushridge(A), and was on Kalecgos(H) before that.

ShouldBeZZZ91 karma

What other games do you play?

Angwe219 karma

I played EverQuest for about 5 years before WoW.

Now all I really play is League of Legends, as I have not found a recent MMO that really suits me.

ALT-F-X77 karma

What's your Elo?

Angwe678 karma

I don't do ranked, people are too mean.

Dire_Crow75 karma

I often refer to yout site when people put on the nostalgia goggles and start claiming that Vanilla was the greatest thing ever. Thanks for keeping your site up so long.

Between your website and World of Roguecraft, I ended up leveling a rogue in Vanilla despite my distaste of the class back then. Then I discovered how fun it was terrorizing farming zones.

Angwe63 karma

Thanks pal, glad you enjoyed it.

I don't actually maintain the site anymore, but the guy who does posted here.

Angwe60 karma

Thanks pal, glad you enjoyed it.

I don't actually maintain the site anymore, but the guy who does posted here.

Dire_Crow75 karma

I often refer to yout site when people put on the nostalgia goggles and start claiming that Vanilla was the greatest thing ever. Thanks for keeping your site up so long.

Between your website and World of Roguecraft, I ended up leveling a rogue in Vanilla despite my distaste of the class back then. Then I discovered how fun it was terrorizing farming zones.

Angwe63 karma

Thanks pal, glad you enjoyed it.

I don't actually maintain the site anymore, but the guy who does posted here.

Angwe60 karma

Thanks pal, glad you enjoyed it.

I don't actually maintain the site anymore, but the guy who does posted here.

furious51373 karma

WHY WERENT YOU GUYS NICER TO QLIMAX HE JUST WANTED TO BE FRIENDS

Angwe82 karma

I THOUGHT I WAS NICE TO HIM< HE WAS A SWELL GUY....VIR NOT SO MUCH THOUGH!

streeter500073 karma

What are you studying in school and where do you see gaming ten years from now?

Angwe143 karma

I got a degree in Game Art and Design, which is a really expensive way to say BFA. I sort of did some creative electives and ended up getting some good programming chops. So I have been working in the games industry for 3 years now as a programmer.

HelpMeLoseMyFat59 karma

How do you feel about the current state of the game vs how it used to be back in vanilla and in BC?

My opinion is that BC was the best time in WOW and it has gone down hill A LOT

Angwe132 karma

I have not looked too much into MoP, but with each expansion there seems to be less importance on player reputation and more on just collecting things with faceless people.

BC was nice but flying mounts killed world PvP (and again in Cata) and Arenas were too sterile and repetitive for me.

deezeekay35 karma

Did anyone ever put a stop to your antics or gank you repeatedly?

Angwe67 karma

Bhalls was a very good Rogue that if I had issues with when we would fight (we were pals though so that rarely happened).

Warriors were a problem once Arcinite Reapers starting becoming common, but I cannot think of any that were absolutely unkillable.

I was also lucky to be horde and not have to deal with prenerf windfury nonsense.

Revick20 karma

Did anyone ever get the best of you and kill you multiple times and did you ever rage hard enough that you had to quit for the day?

Angwe58 karma

I had my fair share of getting pissed off, but I got over it fairly quickly. Honestly I got mad at horde more often than alliance. After a certain point people would come and try to 'help me'.

Angwe55 karma

I had my fair share of getting pissed off, but I got over it fairly quickly. Honestly I got mad at horde more often than alliance. After a certain point people would come and try to 'help me'.

ultimapanzer20 karma

How do you pronounce your name? Is it like Elmer Fudd saying "angry"?

Angwe17 karma

Yes

Angwe13 karma

Yes